The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow.

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

[T]he tax code has been piling up, year after year, a symbol of everything gone wrong in America, of arrogant rulers and lost freedom, just waiting for us to pick the whole thing up and heave it away. It has to happen. Free people can put up with such laws only for so long.

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.